Interactive Repair

The Interactive Repair command uses an interactive pixel "zapping" procedure of point and click, point and click, etc. The command is useful for removing small artifacts and point defects from images. This command is operated from the Interactive Repair Toolbar.

Open the Interactive Repair Toolbar from the Process > Cosmetics menu.

The image below shows an image being "zapped". The Interactive Repair Toolbar is on the left border of the Image Window.

In the figure above, the marking cursor is shown with a Z for "zap". The cursor is a normal crosshair having a small central red square with a transparent center, which is designed so you can see the pixel you are trying to repair.

To repair a pixel, just move the cursor over it and click the mouse.
Mira keeps a running undo of operations so that you can undo all the repairs using the standard Undo command.
To change the way the zapping action works, set preferences in the Pixel Repair Preferences dialog.

(Also in the above figure, you can see that the magnified view is set to a magnification of 1x. Since the thumbnail view shows the "big picture" at a small scale and we have magnified the main image to 8X, the magnified view was set to an intermediate setting. You can compare the 3 stars in the main view to those in the magnified view and similarly compare the full view to the little red rectangle showing its location in the thumbnail view. Here are 3 different views of the same image, all together.)

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